Dairy Development Minister Mano Thangaraj on Thursday said that Aavin, a dairy brand of the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers Federation, would soon tie up with premier academic institutions to improve its overall functioning.
The Minister told presspersons here that preliminary discussions had been held with the Indian Institute of Management – Tiruchi to study and improve the financial systems, human resource management systems, transportation, and logistics of the dairy major.
Similar discussions had been held with Anna University to streamline energy consumption, product enhancement, and industrial automation of the various dairies and other units. “We will sign Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with these institutions shortly,” he said.
Mr. Thangaraj said the small changes had begun happening at Aavin, and one among these was a saving of ₹25 lakh on the power bill last month, with a reduction in consumption of 2.40 lakh units.
“The federation is ensuring that payment to farmers is made every week. Around 60% of farmers are issued spot acknowledgements of milk quality using milk meters. Procurement too has increased by around 4 lakh litres a day and sales in Chennai have increased by 50,000 litres,” he said.
Loss in milk handling had been brought down, the Minister said.
